Riding and slashing the stars of empire civilization

Milin had just opened the tent curtain, and before he could fully enter the tent, a crisp voice greeted him:

"commander!"

Milin, who had become accustomed to this kind of address, nodded to the girl (?) in front of him, and then moved his gaze to another corner of the camp.

Theoretically, there should be another person in the empty corner. Contacting the empty camp outside, Milin, who could figure out what was going on by thinking on his knees, moved his eyes to the man who had just greeted him, wearing a gray military uniform that conformed to post-modern military aesthetics. , a girl (?) with long gray hair asked:

"Where's Alori?"

"I'm sorry, Commander, Alori did not follow your orders and chose to act without permission!" Hearing the helplessness and speechlessness in Milin's tone, the girl with gray hair and gray eyes spoke in a tone that did not fluctuate at all. It sounds like an apology.

"No need to apologize to me, I know you can't stop her." Milin sighed helplessly.

"Yes, Commander, I have no right to order Adjutant Alori, who is at the same level as me." The gray girl answered in a straight tone, with no other emotions except the apology just now, as if she was standing in front of Milin. Just a robot...well, it does seem to be a robot in essence, but you can't use "a" as a quantifier.

"She only took the Nord infantry?" Milin took a few steps forward, walked in front of the gray girl, and asked the girl across a long table with a contour map.

"Yes, Commander, I suggested that she bring more troops, but she only brought four Nord infantry." The gray girl paused when she said this, and seemed to consider her words before continuing:

"I speculate that if it weren't for my suggestion, she might have sneaked into the camp of those forest bandits alone."

"Does she really regard those Nords as the Nords on her side..." Milin was speechless and looked down at the "military" map on the table and asked:

"Are you sure she's planning to sneak in?"

"I remember Commander, you said that as long as you are not discovered, you can sneak in." The gray girl continued to say in a tone without any fluctuation.

"..." Milin, who was choked by the gray girl's words for a while, said: "The question is, with your current limited strength, will it really not turn into a plot like infiltrating the investigator?"

"?" In response to Milin's complaint, the gray girl showed a very artificial blank expression on her face, as if she didn't understand what Milin was saying.

"...When did she leave?" Milin continued to ask, not paying attention to the gray girl's pretending to be stupid.

"Forty-one minutes, sixteen seconds, seventeen seconds, eighteen seconds..." The gray girl immediately put away her blank expression and replied.

"Stop, stop, stop, no need for such details, I just want to know if it's still too late to leave now?" Milin immediately stopped the gray girl from counting down.

"Based on our average marching speed, compare Alori's marching speed and the terrain of the destination." After stating a bunch of analysis conditions, the gray girl continued without any pause: "We can help her collect the loot."

"...Or help her get rid of her identity as a trophy?" Milin, who still trusted the gray girl's judgment in this regard, moved his eyes to an area with dense lines on the map.

Faced with Milin's complaints, the gray girl just smiled in response.

At the same time, in the mountains and forests dozens of miles away from the camp.

Originally, this mountain forest near the plains was a favorite place for hunters in the surrounding villages, but since it was occupied by a group of bandits from the west a few months ago, it has become a restricted area for no one to enter.

The bandit gangs based in this mountain forest were plundering the surrounding areas, and the nearby villages were forced to unite and spend a large sum of dinars, hoping to hire a group of "reliable" mercenaries to deal with these bandits.

As for why we emphasize "reliable", it's because before Milin accepted this commission, two groups of well-known mercenaries had already fallen into it.

Facing Westerners who are accustomed to living in the jungle by fishing and hunting, the mercenaries in the empire's territory are often shot into hedgehogs before they even see the opponent's figure.

"Whoosh--boom" An arrow that was quite sophisticated judging from the shape of its tail feathers, accompanied by a sound of streaking through the air, pierced the metal arrow into a big tree.

This was followed by several more "dong dong" sounds, causing the figure hiding behind the tree to shrink his neck subconsciously.

"Oh, is it that exaggerated?" Although there was a movement of shrinking the neck, the figure behind the tree did not seem to show any panic because of the failure of his stealth operation.

Perhaps as Milin complained, this person had no intention of sneaking at all. After all, no one would sneak around wearing chain armor and plate armor with a layer of walking armor on top, and looking like a humanoid tank.

This kind of dressing up is useless no matter how high the stealth level is.

It was lucky to be discovered so close.

"Okay, this distance is enough, all that's left is courage!" The humanoid tank-like figure straightened his helmet, which was a little crooked due to shrinking his neck. Several strands of red hair rose from the gap between the helmet and the armor. come out.

A small whistle was inserted into one of the few gaps in the helmet, followed by a short and harsh whistle.

As soon as the whistle blew, similar whistles came from several nearby trees, responding to the call of the red-haired figure.

The forest bandit, who was holding a longbow and firing oversaturation shots into the woods as if his strength was worthless, was slightly stunned by the whistle.

The brief moment of confusion caused the arrows that were originally as dense as the barrage to become slightly sparse. In such a short time, they were rushed from behind the big tree that was the main target... To be precise, a human-shaped iron block jumped out.

Accompanying the human-shaped iron block was a sound of "waaaaagh" that was obviously good in voice, but had an overwhelming momentum.

Seeing that the target finally appeared, the arrows that had been scattered widely were immediately hit on the human-shaped iron block. In just over ten seconds, the human-shaped iron block was pierced into a steel porcupine.

However, the arrows all over his body did not slow down the movement of the human-shaped iron block. On the contrary, the closer the human-shaped iron block got to the forest bandit, the faster the human-shaped iron block ran.

After getting closer, the bandits noticed that the humanoid iron block was wearing a very strange and thick armor. It was so thick that they couldn't even tell that it was a humanoid creature.

Wait... can you still stand with this kind of weight? Still running so fast?

This was the only sentence that echoed in the mind of the forest bandit at the front before his entire upper body was taken away with a flail.

The Steel Porcupine, who shocked the whole crowd with one move, did not continue to wave the flail in his hand to achieve victory, but raised his head, took a deep breath and roared:

"Vos! Luo! Da!"

As soon as the sound went down, the surrounding forest bandits who were trying to avoid this strange steel porcupine all lost their footing and staggered. Some of the ones whose feet were not stable even fell to the ground directly on their buttocks.

Before these forest bandits could react, several Nord warriors wearing mail armor, northern closed helmets, and carrying oversized bucklers jumped out from behind several other trees.

Just like the Nord warriors seen in other parts of the empire, these Nord warriors carrying oversized bucklers shouted "waaagh" and charged at the forest bandits while pointing the axes in their hands at the forest bandits. The head was lost.

There were only a few people, but they rushed out into the mountains and forests with the momentum of thousands of troops.

The forest bandits, who originally had an absolute advantage in numbers, fell into a state of shock and judgment under this momentum. When these Nords rushed into the bandits with arrows that had become sparse, the rest was garbage time.